Its just about year to the day since IBM announced the IBM Storwize V7000, today we've announed the next major step in the evolution of the product, and the SVC code base at its heart. The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified. This integrates IBM's Common NAS software...

Wait until you see the new IBM Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) Lite Client software. SUT Lite Client is a licensing option that is available with Sametime 8.5.2. For example, with SUT Lite Client you can: Make
and receive telephone and video calls, even...

Lately, patients are expecting their physicians to provide them a higher quality healthcare with intelligent, immediate insights from their radiological images, clinician notes and lab results. They are demanding simple diagnostic guidance, customized...

Dockerizing Oracle Database Docker is a next buzzword on the net now. While a lot of work has been done in dockerizing various applications under docker softwares like Oracle still poses challenges during installation / configuration / execution. This blog...

With the surge of smartphones and tablets is also the surge of applications available for storing and sharing data. Employees of many organization tend to use the applications of their choice which are comfortable to them to store and share data. This puts...

It is ironic that only days after I wrote that 497 is the IT number of the beast , I learn that Linux has another unfortunate number: 208. The reason for this is a defect in the internal Linux kernel used in recent firmware levels of SVC, Storwize V7000 and...

Load Balancers Are Dead: Time to Focus on Application Delivery 2 February 2009 Mark Fabbi Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00164098 When looking at feature requirements in front of and between server tiers, too many organizations think only about load...

Cisco’s apparently going to try to simplify its sales, services and engineering organizations in the next 120 days Faced with a nasty loss of credibility, a string of poor financial
results, shrinking market share in its core business, an unwieldy and...

The next era of Smarter Computing starts today! The world is changing. Is your infrastructure ready? Today IBM has released several new Enterprise Systems, here is a detailed peak into the storage associated systems. New IBM System Storage DS8870 The DS8870...

A new firmware level has been released and corrects a serious bug : Storwize V7000 and SVC : 6.3.0.2 (30 March 2012) Storwize V7000 Unified : 1.3.0.5 (2 April 2012) This strange bug due to a known Linux kernel issue which result in a kernel panic (due to a...

Method for Unified Smarter URL Web Service While me and my team have disclosed this over ip.com ( abt a day back) - I thought of expressing this in the blog forum for greater visibility and chances that fellow friends can apply it in real life. "Method...

With Sametime 8.5.2, we've made it easy for everyone to see who is the active speaker during a call with multiple people. In the picture below, the orange frame around Amadou Alain's picture shows that currently he is the active speaker on this call: If...

Storwize V7000 Unified, A marriage of SAN and NAS Storwize V7000 and the IBM NAS software were married Wednesday, October 12, 2012 at midnight at IBM Storage chapel in San Jose, California. The Reverend Rod Adkins officiated. Following the...

IBM has today announced a whole swag of planned new features across the entire IBM Storage product line. You can read the announcement letter here and I have also dropped the text at the bottom of this blog post (to save you clicking on the link). It's a...

What: Accelerate with ATS: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified - Let’s Talk Policy In this session we will explore the V7000 Unified policy engine. We will create policies for data placement, migration, and backup. Additionally, we will look at troubleshooting...

Introduction When properly configured, an AIX server can act as : iSCSI initiator : access storage devices using TCP/IP on Ethernet network adapters iSCSI target : export local storage to be accessed by other iSCSI initiators using the iSCSI protocol In our...

Recently I was involved in changing the Ethernet bonding configuration for an IBM Storwize V7000 Unified . This particular V7000 Unified is connected to a Cisco Network Switch (4500 family). I decided to create a blog entry for this topic as it seems the...

Last week at the IBM Technical Conference I was able to
spend some time with a couple of friends discussing technology. It is always interesting to hear their take
on where the storage market is going and what lays ahead in the future. As my Netapp...

Eight years ago, I was in La Hulpe Belgium for a training seminar. La Hulpe is a leafy village in one of the POSH suburbs of Brussels, near Waterloo, where Napoleon lost his final battle in 1815. Back then, IBM owned a Danish designed training facility...

A lot was announced yesterday, so I decided to break it up into several separate posts. This is part 2 in my 3-part series, focusing on: Storwize V7000 Unified, LTO-6 tape, and the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center.
(to read the rest of the series, see [...